CommonParlance
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Ordinary-language usages. Seeded from the Open English WordNet (OEWN) 2025, CC BY 4.0.
Context admission
Admitted. Context admission is separate from purpose assessments and factual verdicts.
Why maintain this knowledge?
No justification recorded. This does not mean the knowledge is unjustified; no applicable assessment has been adopted.
Particular uses
These assessments concern specific investigations, audiences, or applications. They do not replace the default justification or authorize other uses.
No particular uses recorded here.
Review or propose an assessment
Purpose authoring is optional. Propose a more specific default or a particular use only when there is something more specific to say. Each proposal includes its scope and reasoning in one market.
Purpose assessments are separate from factual reasoning and context admission. A missing or denied purpose does not change a factual verdict or prevent context creation.
Child contexts
- Science Proposed
Terms in this context
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Carnot's ideal cycle in CommonParlance
- definition a cycle (of expansion and compression) of an idealized reversible heat engine that does work without loss of heat
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Carolean in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to the life and times of kings Charles I or Charles II of England
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Carolina allspice in CommonParlance
- definition hardy shrub of southeastern United States having clove-scented wood and fragrant red-brown flowers
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Carolina buckthorn in CommonParlance
- definition deciduous shrub of eastern and central United States having black berrylike fruit; golden-yellow in autumn
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Carolina chickadee in CommonParlance
- definition southern United States chickadee similar to the blackcap but smaller
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Carolina hemlock in CommonParlance
- definition medium-sized evergreen of southeastern United States having spreading branches and widely diverging cone scales
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Carolina jasmine in CommonParlance
- definition poisonous woody evergreen vine of southeastern United States having fragrant yellow funnel-shaped flowers
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Carolina lupine in CommonParlance
- definition eastern United States bush pea
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Carolina moonseed in CommonParlance
- definition woody vine of southeastern United States resembling the common moonseed but having red fruits
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Carolina parakeet in CommonParlance
- definition extinct parakeet whose range extended far into the United States
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Carolina pond fern in CommonParlance
- definition small free-floating aquatic fern from the eastern United States to tropical America; naturalized in western and southern Europe
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Carolina spring beauty in CommonParlance
- definition similar to Claytonia virginica but having usually pink flowers; eastern North America
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Carolina wren in CommonParlance
- definition large United States wren with a musical call
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Caroline in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to the life and times of kings Charles I or Charles II of England
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Carolingian in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to the Frankish dynasty founded by Charlemagne's father
- definition a member of the Carolingian dynasty
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Carolingian dynasty in CommonParlance
- definition a Frankish dynasty founded by Charlemagne's father that ruled from 751 to 987
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Carolinian in CommonParlance
- definition a native or resident of the Carolinas
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Carpenteria californica in CommonParlance
- definition California evergreen shrub having glossy opposite leaves and terminal clusters of a few fragrant white flowers
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Carphophis amoenus in CommonParlance
- definition small reddish wormlike snake of eastern United States
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Carpinus betulus in CommonParlance
- definition medium-sized Old World tree with smooth grey bark and leaves like beech that turn yellow-orange in autumn
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Carpinus caroliniana in CommonParlance
- definition tree or large shrub with grey bark and blue-green leaves that turn red-orange in autumn
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Carpobrotus edulis in CommonParlance
- definition low-growing South African succulent plant having a capsular fruit containing edible pulp
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Carpocapsa pomonella in CommonParlance
- definition a small grey moth whose larvae live in apples and English walnuts
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Carpodacus mexicanus in CommonParlance
- definition small finch originally of the western United States and Mexico
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Carpodacus purpureus in CommonParlance
- definition North American finch having a raspberry-red head and breast and rump